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1900-Today Focus Period Humanities Mega-Quiz

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Romulus and Remus, Calder Cirque
Alexander Calder
Charring Cross Bridge, The Painter and His Family
Andre Derain
Christina's World
Andrew Wyeth
Campbell's Soup Cans, Monroe Shots
Andy Warhol
Known for his black and white images of the American West
Ansel Adams
Balloon Girl, Graffiti Artist
Banksy
Cataract 3, Movement in Squares
Bridget Riley
The Kiss (Sculpture)
Constantin Brâncuși
Well known in the field of blown glass, "moving it into the realm of large-scale sculpture"
Dale Chihuly
Lincoln Memorial Statue, The Minuteman, Lafayette Memorial
Daniel Chester French
Detroit Industry Murals, Man At The Crossroads
Diego Rivera
The Thinker
Auguste Rodin
Migrant Mother
Dorothea Lange
The Scream
Edvard Munch
Nighthawks, Automat
Edward Hopper
Blue Horses, Blue Horse 1
Franz Marc
Diego and I, Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird
Frida Kahlo
Realist painter, known for his bold depictions of urban life in New York City. He became, according to the Columbus Museum of Art, "the most acclaimed American artist of his generation"; Cliff Dwellers
George Bellows
Co-founder of Cubism; Houses at Estaque
Georges Braque
Jimson Weed, Oriental Poppies
Georgia O'Keefe
Folk Painter; Sugaring Off
Grandma Moses
American Gothic
Grant Wood
The Kiss
Gustave Klimt
Mt. Rushmore
Gutzon Borglum
Fauvist who cut paper; Nude Blue, Dance
Henri Matisse
Primitive Post-Impressionist; The Dream
Henri Rousseau
Abstract Expressionist known for his "drip technique"
Jackson Pollock
Three flags, Usuyuki
Jasper Johns
African American Neo-expressionist; Warrior, Untitled
Jean-Michel Basquiat
John Brown (Painting)
John Steuart Curry
Relativity (Stairs), Ascending and Descending
M.C. Escher
I And The Village
Marc Chagall
Fountain, Nude Descending A Staircase
Marcel Duchamp
Photojournalism Pioneer Woman
Margaret Bourke-White
Orange and Yellow
Mark Rothko
The Elephant Celebes, Ubu Imperator
Max Ernst
Four Freedoms
Norman Rockwell
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, The Old Guitarist
Pablo Picasso
Senecio, Castle and Sun
Paul Klee
Broadway Boogie-Woogie, Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow
Piet Mondrian
Fauvist, Boats at Martigues
Raoul Dufy
The False Mirror, The Lovers
Rene Magritte
Dutch Girl in White, The Masquerade Dress
Robert Henri
Whaam!, M-Maybe...
Roy Lichtenstein
The Persistence of Memory
Salvador Dali
Persephone, The Kentukian
Thomas Hart Benton
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
Umberto Boccioni
Pioneer of Abstraction in Western Art. Known for his "Composition" Paintings
Vassily Kandinsky
Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist known for painting women; Interchange, Woman
Willem De Kooning
Art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead uses shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect.
Abstract Art
Art movement characterised by gestural brush-strokes or mark-making, and the impression of spontaneity.
Abstract Expressionism
Artistic movement that portrayed scenes of daily life in New York.
Ashcan School
Art movement emphasizing the use of geometric shapes to portray the subject.
Cubism
Art movement emphasizing Anti-war ideals.
Dada
Art movement that used squares and rectangles with mostly primary colors.
De Stijl
A group of artists that informally got together to express that blue is the most spiritual color.
Der Blaue Reiter
Art movement that emphasized presenting the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.
Expressionism
Art movement that experimented using bold, vibrant, almost acidic colours used in unusual juxtaposition, and an intuitive, highly gestural application of paint.
Fauvism
Art movement that aimed to capture in art the dynamism and energy of the modern world.
Futurism
Group of Native American artists that portray their tribe's life in their paintings.
Kiowa Six
Art movement that aims to trick the eye, seeming to bend and move.
Op Art
Art movement with paintings made with consumer materials or comic art as the subject.
Pop Art
Art movement that emphasized more realist, local subjects.
Regionalism
Art movement that attempts to convey dreams and the imagination with its paintings.
Surrealism
Appalachian Spring, Billy The Kid, Fanfare for the Common Man
Aaron Copland
The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Easter Parade, On the Town, Kiss Me Kate
Ann Miller
Ballerina, Known as "A Woman for All Time" - The Dumb Girl of Portici, The Dying Swan
Anna Pavlova
Respect, Amazing Grace
Aretha Franklin
Verklarte Nacht, Pierrot Lunaire
Arnold Schoenberg
Movies: Catch-22, Carnal Knowledge, Music: Sound of Silence, I am a Rock
Simon & Garfunkel
Concerto for Orchestra, Mikrokosmos
Bela Bartok
The War Requiem, Peter Grimes
Benjamin Britten
A great clarinetist: Moon Glow, Glory of Love, Don't Be That Way
Benny Goodman
Nicknamed "Lady Day", Jazz and Swing Singer: All of Me, I'll Be Seeing You
Billie Holiday
Knockin' on Heaven's Door, Like a Rolling Stone, You Angel You
Bob Dylan
Three Little Birds, No Woman No Cry
Bob Marley
That'll Be The Day, Peggy Sue, Oh Boy!
Buddy Holly
Carmina Burana, Gassenhauer
Carl Orff
Johnny B. Goode
Chuck Berry
Clair de Lune, Petite Suite
Claude Debussy
Night and Day, C'est Magnifique
Cole Porter
One O' Clock Jump, Blue and Sentimental
Count Basie
Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, 15 String Quartets and Symphonies
Dmitri Shostakovich
American Pie, Castles in the Air, And I Love You So
Don McLean
Take the 'A' Train, It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
Duke Ellington
Enigma Variations, The Dream of Gerontius
Edward Elgar
Hound Dog, Jailhouse Rock, The Wonder of You
Elvis Presley
Fly Me To The Moon, That's Life, My Way
Frank Sinatra
Actor: Easter Parade, The Bandwagon, Top Hat
Fred Astaire
Friends in Low Places, Unanswered Prayers, The Thunder Rolls
Garth Brooks
Nicknamed "The Singing Cowboy": Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Up on the House Top, Peter Cottontail
Gene Autrey
Rhapsody in Blue, I Got Rhythm, Porgy and Bess
George Gershwin
Choreographer: Apollon Musagete, The Firebird, Agon
George Balanchine
Little Johnny James, The Governor's Son, Forty-five Minutes From Broadway
George M. Cohan
Actress; Top Hat, Swing Time, Kitty Foyle
Ginger Rogers
Moonlight Serenade, Chattanooga Choo Choo
Glenn Miller
The Planets, The Cloud Messenger Op. 30
Gustav Holst
Hey Good Lookin', I Saw The Light, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Hank Williams
The Rite of Spring, The Firebird, Oedipus Rex
Igor Stravinsky
Annie Get Your Gun, Cheek to Cheek, Puttin' On The Ritz
Irving Berlin
Dancer and Choreographer strangled by her own scarf
Isadora Duncan
I Got You (I Feel Good), Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine
James Brown
Finlandia, Be Still My Soul
Jean Sibelius
All The Things You Are, Make Believe
Jerome Kern
Margaritaville, Come Monday
Jimmy Buffett
4'33", Imaginary Landscape No.4
John Cage
A Love Supreme, Giant Steps
John Coltrane
Take Me Home Country Roads, Thank God I'm A Country Boy
John Denver
Singer: Here Comes The Sun, Help!, Hey Jude
John Lennon
The Stars and Stripes Forever, Washington Post
John Phillip Sousa
I Walk The Line, Ring of Fire, Hurt
Johnny Cash
Stairway To Heaven, The Immigrant Song
Led Zeppelin
Stormy Weather, The Lady is a Tramp
Lena Horne
West Side Story
Leonard Bernstein
What A Wonderful World, Hello Dolly
Louis Armstrong
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Like a Prayer, Material Girl, Like A Virgin
Madonna
Dancer famous for creating her namesake dance technique
Martha Graham
Bolero, Tzigane
Maurice Ravel
Rock With You, You Are Not Alone, Bad
Michael Jackson
Singer: Jumpin' Jack Flash, Paint it Black, Start Me Up
Mick Jagger
Dancer: Sex and the City, The Nutcracker, Carmen
Mikhail Baryshnikov
So What, Blue In Green, Freddy Freeloader
Miles Davis
(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay, I've Been Loving You Too Long
Otis Redding
Pines of Rome, Roman Festivals
Ottorino Respighi
Metamorphosis (Composition), Einstein On The Beach
Phillip Glass
Purple Rain, When Doves Cry, 1999
Prince
The Lark Ascending, Five Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus'
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Oklahoma!, Carousel, The Sound of Music
Richard Rogers & Oscar Hammerstein
Elektra, Metamoprhosen
Richard Strauss
Oh Pretty Woman, You Got It
Roy Orbison
Dancer, the star of the movie "The White Crow"
Rudolf Nureyev
Adagio For Strings, Agnus Dei
Samuel Barber
Maple Leaf Rag, The Easy Winners
Scott Joplin
Russian art critic who founded the Ballets Russes
Sergei Diaghilev
Ballet Romeo and Juliet, Peter and the Wolf
Sergei Prokofiev
Nocturne in A Minor, Piano Concerto No 2 in C Minor
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Drumming, Different Trains
Steve Reich
You Belong With Me, Shake It Off, Bad Blood
Taylor Swift
Rum and Coca-Cola, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
The Andrews Sisters
Wouldn't It Be Nice, Fun Fun Fun, I Get Around
The Beach Boys
Band: Help!, Hey Jude
The Beatles
Band: Paint It Black, Start Me Up, Jumpin' Jack Flash
The Rolling Stones
Stop! In the Name of Love, You Can't Hurry Love
The Supremes
Epistrophy, Well You Needn't, I Mean You
Thelonious Monk
Russian-Polish Dancer regarded as the greatest male dancer of the early 1900s
Vaslav Nijinsky
This Land is Your Land, Tear the Fascists Down
Woody Guthrie
(Authors) Winnie The Pooh
A.A. Milne
Murder on the Oriental Express, Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie
The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Howl, Kaddish
Allen Ginsberg
Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekhov
The Little Prince
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010: Odyssey Two
Arthur C. Clarke
Sherlock Holmes Series
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible
Arthur Miller
Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter
Henry Huggins
Beverly Cleary
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Carson McCullers
Arrow of God, Things Fell Apart
Chinua Achebe
The Rainbow, Lady Chatterley's Lover
D.H. Lawrence
Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier
The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett
Infinite Jest, This is Water
David Foster Wallace
A Hundred and One Dalmatians
Dodie Smith
The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing
Lord Peter Series
Dorothy L. Sayers
The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, The Night the Grinch Stole Christmas
Dr. Seuss
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas
Tulips and Chimneys, Since Feeling First
E.E. Cummings
Charlotte's Web, The Trumpet of the Swan
E.B. White
A Passage to India
E.M. Forster
Tarzan of the Apes
Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
Where the Cross is Made
Eugene O'Neill
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
The Cantos
Ezra Pound
The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wise Blood
Flannery O'Connor
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Dune
Frank Herbert
Metamorphosis (book)
Franz Kafka
Orthodoxy, The Everlasting Man
G.K. Chesterton
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pygmalion, Saint Joan
George Bernard Shaw
1984, Animal Farm
George Orwell
A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein
The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene
The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse
Gunter Grass
Curious George
H.A. Rey
War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau
H.G. Wells
The Call of Cthulhu, Necronomicon, Azathoth, Dagon
H.P. Lovecraft
To Kill A Mockingbird
Harper Lee
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
Siddhartha, Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse
007 Series
Ian Fleming
I Robot
Isaac Asimov
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
J.M. Barrie
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Harry Potter Series
J.K. Rowling
The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings Series
J.R.R. Tolkien
On The Road
Jack Kerouac
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
Ulysses
James Joyce
The Man of Property, Justice
John Galsworthy
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
John Le Carre
The Grapes of Wrath, The Pearl, East of Eden, Cannery Row
John Steinbeck
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret.
Judy Blume
The Prophet, Broken Wings
Kahlil Gibran
War With The Newts
Karel Capek
The Awakening
Kate Chopin
The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis
Slaughterhouse Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Oz Series (The Marvelous Land of Oz)
L. Frank Baum
I Too, Harlem
Langston Hughes
Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Giver Series
Lois Lowry
Last of the Breed (Cowboy Series Author)
Louis Lamour
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Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Late Mattia Pascal, One No One And A Hundred Thousand
Luigi Pirandello
A Wrinkle In Time
Madeleine L'Engle
In Search Of Lost Time
Marcel Proust
Gone With The Wind
Margaret Mitchell
Misty of Chincoteague
Marguerite Henry
The Time of the Hero
Mario Vargas Llosa
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, And Still I Rise
Maya Angelou
The Picture of Dorian Grey, The Happy Prince
Oscar Wilde
Jeeves In The Offing
P.G. Wodehouse
Canto General, Twenty Love Poems And A Song Of Despair
Pablo Neruda
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
The Good Earth
Pearl Buck
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
Northern Lights, The Amber Spyglass, The Subtle Knife
Philip Pullman
The Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
The Big Sheep, The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler
Watership Down
Richard Adams
Native Son
Richard Wright
Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG, Fantastic Mr. Fox
Roald Dahl
Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert Heinlein
Fire and Ice, The Road Not Taken, Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost
The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King
Rudyard Kipling
The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie
Waiting For Godot
Samuel Beckett
The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow
Death of a Naturalist
Seamus Heaney
The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein
Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis
It, The Shining
Stephen King
Lady Lazarus, Daddy
Sylvia Plath
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
T.E. Lawrence
Wasteland, The Hollow Men, Four Quartets
T.S. Eliot
The Iron Giant
Ted Hughes
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
Good Omens
Terry Pratchett
Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser
Tess of the d'Urbevilles
Thomas Hardy
The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice
Thomas Mann
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Our Town
Thornton Wilder
Beloved, The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum
Umberto Eco
The Jungle, Oil!
Upton Sinclair
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Lolita, Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabakov
Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence
W. Somerset Maugham
The Souls of Black Folk, Talented Tenth
W.E.B. Dubois
My Antonia, O Pioneers!
Willa Cather
The Second Coming
W.B. Yeats
The Red Wheelbarrow
William Carlos Williams
The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Riders of the Purple Sage
Zane Grey
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Basilica de la Sagrada Familia
Antoni Gaudi
Geodesic Domes
Buckminster Fuller
The Gateway Arch, Terminal 5
Eero Saarinen
The Guggenheim Museum
Frank Gehry
Robie House, Fallingwater
Frank Lloyd Wright
Villa Savoye,
Le Corbusier
FDR Four Freedoms Park, Yale University Art Gallery
Louis Kahn
Wainwright Building,
Louis Sullivan
Edith Farnsworth House
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Civil Rights Memorial Center
Maya Lin
The Glass House, Seagram Building
Phillip Johnson
Bauhaus Dessau, Bauhaus Archive
Walter Gropius
Chrysler Building
William Van Alen
The "Father of Operant Conditioning"
B.F. Skinner
Former Pope; First to resign in over 700 years
Benedict XVI
Philosopher; author of "A History of Western Philosophy"
Bertrand Russell
Feminist Writer; The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan
Evangelist known for his baseball career before becoming a preacher
Billy Sunday
Author of "The Chronicles of Narnia"
C.S. Lewis
Founder of Analytical Psychology
Carl Jung
Lutheran Pastor known for his involvement in a conspiracy to assassinate Hitler, leading to his execution
Dietrich Bon Hoeffer
Catholic activist and journalist who co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement with Peter Maurin.
Dorothy Day
Psychologist; Founder of Phenomenology,
Edmund Husserl
Catholic sister that founded the United States' parochial school system
Elizabeth Ann Seton
Physicist who formulated his namesake equation and was a founder of Quantum Mechanics
Erwin Schrodinger
Author of The Road to Serfdom and developed Spontaneous Order in social theory
Friedrich Hayek
Philosophical author of The Life of Reason, Skepticism and Animal Faith, and his aphorism "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana
Founder of Philosophical Hermeneutics and his own namesake theory
Hans-Georg Gadamer
French philosopher, the first to elaborate what came to be called a process philosophy, which rejected static values in favor of values of motion, change, and evolution
Henri Bergson
Philosopher who developed the philosophy of deconstruction
Jacques Derrida
Child Development Psychologist who developed the Theory of Cognitive Development
Jean Piaget
Central figure in 20th century existentialism and author of Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre
A Founder of Pragmatism and a pioneer in functional psychology as well as a leader of the Progressive movement in education in the US
John Dewey
Founder of Keynesian Economics and Influential economist known for his work The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
John Maynard Keynes
Pope accredited with playing a significant role in the fall of Communism
John Paul II
Philosopher known for his Theory of Justice believing the concept of justice is fairness
John Rawls
Philosopher known for his Theory of Falsification
Karl Popper
A central figure in the 1905 Revolution, October Revolution of 1917, Russian Civil War, and establishment of the Soviet Union
Leon Trotsky
Philosopher who developed the Picture Theory
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Leader in India's independence known for his philosophy of nonviolent resistance
Mahatma Gandhi
Former chairman of the CCP who founded the People's Republic of China
Mao Zedong
Physician who developed his namesake method, a child-centered educational approach emphasizing self-directed learning and individualized instruction, which is still used in schools worldwide.
Maria Montessori
Philosopher known for his concept of "The Medium is the Message"
Marshall McLuhan
Philosopher known for his Theory of Dialogue and the author of I and Thou
Martin Buber
Philosopher, the author of Being and Time
Martin Heidegger
African American Preacher who was a leader the Civil Rights Movement in the US
Martin Luther King Jr.
Historian and Philosopher known for Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison and The History of Sexuality
Michel Foucault
Saint who won a Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian work particularly in India
Mother Teresa
The Father of Generative Grammar Theory who also helped to initiate and sustain what came to be known as the “cognitive revolution.
Noam Chomsky
Philosopher known for his contributions to pragmatism, his critique of representationalism, and his advocacy for a more pragmatic and conversational approach to philosophy
Richard Rorty
Psychologist known for his Psychosexual Theory; The Founder of Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
Female Philosopher who authored The Second Sex
Simone De Beauvoir
Chinese physician, revolutionary, statesman, and political philosopher who founded the Republic of China and its first political party, the Kuomintang
Sun Yat-sen
Critic and Philosopher known for his works: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction and Theses on the Philosophy of History
Walter Benjamin
A pose where the dancer balances on one leg with the other leg extended directly behind them, creating a long line from the toes to the head
Arabesque
Slow, sustained movements characterized by fluidity and graceful transitions
Adagio
Quick, lively movements, particularly jumps
Allegro
An extended or lengthened position or movement, often emphasizing a long, elegant line
Allonge
An act or manner of moving and posing the arms
Port de Bras
A circular movement of the leg which can be performed on the ground or during a jump
Rond de Jambe
A fundamental movement where the dancer extends the working leg and foot along the floor, keeping the toes in contact with the ground
Tendu
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